Hiring: Database Administrator / Donor Relationship Specialist

Animal Trustees of Austin - Database Administrator / Donor Relationship Specialist
If you are interested in working in an active non-profit environment while making a change in the lives of animals and people, join the Animal Trustees of Austin during one of the most exciting times in the company’s fifteen years history.  

Job duties include:

• Process, record and acknowledge all donations, gifts and online donations
• Manage an online database
• Manage reservations for special events
• Prepare a weekly deposit log of all donations
• Produce reports upon request
• Manage donors’ files
• Assist Development Director with preparations for special events
• Assist Executive Director with general administrative tasks 
• Assist in compiling materials for the company’s website and newsletters
• Assist in organizing company’s archives

Skills required:
Computer skills and working knowledge of most common computer applications. Experience managing Donor Perfect database is highly appreciated.  Further skills in web design, email applications, graphic design and database administration are a great plus.  Superior organizational skills, communication skills and must love animals.

This is a part time position which pays $10-$12 per hour (depends on experience).

Please email your resume and cover letter to Shir@animaltrustees.org.

Whole Foods 5% Community Giving Day

On Tuesday, June 24th, Animal Trustees of Austin and our ASPCA Mission: Orange partners, Austin Humane Society and EmanciPet, will benefit from Whole Foods 5% Community Giving Day.  Whole Foods Market generously selected the Austin partners of Mission: Orange to receive this very generous gift as a way to acknowledge our enormous impact in Austin, and 5% of sales from BOTH stores will be given back to the partners! So hang on to your reusable shopping bags and come by on Tuesday! 

You know that just this Tuesday, every yummy treat will delight more than just yourself, family and pets.  It will help us make more animals healthy and happy in Austin and that is a good thing! 

Join us from 5:00PM to 7:00PM at the Whole Foods downtown for ” Yappy Hour”.  Bring your pet (on a leash, of course) and enjoy fun activities designed for pets and people alike.  Stop by the ATA booth and say Hi;  we would love to say thank you for your support!

Thank you so much for your help and please forward this on.   See you on Tuesday!!!

For more information on ASPCA Mission: Orange go to www.ASPCA.org

Fonda San Miguel Dinner

On Sunday April 27, we held our annual fundraiser at Fonda San Miguel restaurant. Thanks to Tom Gilliland, owner of Fonda San Miguel and Janice Harris, the restaurant’s office manager, we were able to entertain our guest once more with a lavish vegetarian buffet in true Fonda style. We also had a lively raffle which included many wonderful items, such as a $500 gift certificate to Calvin’s Fine Jewelers, an overflowing Aveda gift basket from Avalon Salon and a weekend boarding with bath at Barking Hound Village.

The raffle was overshadowed by the conversation piece of the evening - a dazzling dog house created entirely of candy by Gilbert Johnson and Tino Ramirez from the Chocolate Bar in Houston, featuring ATA Spokesdog, Jessie Rose, in each little window. One hundred and seventy ATA supporters from near and far turned out for this successful and delicious event. Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed the festivities, ATA was able to raise over $20,000 to help keep animals in Central Texas healthy and well. Way to go!

Weekly Update

Five 3 week old puppies were brought into the Clinic two Mondays ago by a Good Samaritan that found them in a box by the dumpster. Keni and Missy took them home to bottle feed them and they are now 5 weeks old and adorable!  We will keep them another week or so as we continue to ween them then hopefully Blue Dog Rescue or Austin Humane will take them for adoption after that. Later that same day someone brought in three 6 week old very hungry abandoned kittens. Marion, a wellness clinic tech, took these babies home to foster and they are doing good.

On Saturday of that week, Keni and Missy were driving to work and picked up two  3 month old, filthy, flea ridden healer mix puppies out of the middle of RR 812. We took them to the clinic - fed, bathed, wormed and vaccinated them and watched with delight as they changed from petrified, starving babies into playful, silly, normal pups. Kathy Adaky from Blue Dog picked them up that afternoon and they are doing great!

We took in another starving, mange covered three month old, hound mix this past Saturday and treated him to “the works” and he is going to rescue today.

• Spay/neutered - 111 dogs and cats
• Heartworm treated 32 dogs
• Dentals on 40 dogs and cats
• Special surgeries - 16 ( 8 of these were orthopedic surgeries)
• Vaccinated 410 dogs and cats
• Microchipped 29
• Gave free vet care for 21 animals through the Public Assistance and 4PAWS program for the indigent and homeless
• Provided emergency care for 13 animals through the Emergency Care Fund ( 11 Parvo, 1 hit by car, 1 uterine infection)